Sports of the Times - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sports of the Times write by Gene Brown. This book was released on 1986. Sports of the Times available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Qualifying Times
Qualifying Times - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Qualifying Times write by Jaime Schultz. This book was released on 2014-03-15. Qualifying Times available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This perceptive, lively study explores U.S. women's sport through historical "points of change": particular products or trends that dramatically influenced both women's participation in sport and cultural responses to women athletes. Beginning with the seemingly innocent ponytail, the subject of the Introduction, scholar Jaime Schultz challenges the reader to look at the historical and sociological significance of now-common items such as sports bras and tampons and ideas such as sex testing and competitive cheerleading. Tennis wear, tampons, and sports bras all facilitated women’s participation in physical culture, while physical educators, the aesthetic fitness movement, and Title IX encouraged women to challenge (or confront) policy, financial, and cultural obstacles. While some of these points of change increased women's physical freedom and sporting participation, they also posed challenges. Tampons encouraged menstrual shame, sex testing (a tool never used with male athletes) perpetuated narrowly-defined cultural norms of femininity, and the late-twentieth-century aesthetic fitness movement fed into an unrealistic beauty ideal. Ultimately, Schultz finds that U.S. women's sport has progressed significantly but ambivalently. Although participation in sports is no longer uncommon for girls and women, Schultz argues that these "points of change" have contributed to a complex matrix of gender differentiation that marks the female athletic body as different than--as less than--the male body, despite the advantages it may confer.
Sports Pages of the Los Angeles Times
Sports Pages of the Los Angeles Times - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sports Pages of the Los Angeles Times write by Bill Shirley. This book was released on 1983. Sports Pages of the Los Angeles Times available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Big-Time Sports in American Universities
Big-Time Sports in American Universities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Big-Time Sports in American Universities write by Charles T. Clotfelter. This book was released on 2019-02-21. Big-Time Sports in American Universities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book expands on the argument that spectator sports, despite their problems, have become a central function of American universities.
Sports and Freedom
Sports and Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sports and Freedom write by Ronald A. Smith. This book was released on 1990-12-27. Sports and Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Perhaps more than any other two colleges, Harvard and Yale gave form to American intercollegiate athletics--a form that was inspired by the Oxford-Cambridge rivalry overseas, and that was imitated by colleges and universities throughout the United States. Focusing on the influence of these prestigious eastern institutions, this fascinating study traces the origins and development of intercollegiate athletics in America from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Smith begins with an historical overview of intercollegiate athletics and details the evolution of individual sports--crew, baseball, track and field, and especially football. Then, skillfully setting various sports events in their broader social and cultural contexts, Smith goes on to discuss many important issues that are still relevant today: student-faculty competition for institutional athletic control; the impact of the professional coach on big-time athletics; the false concept of amateurism in college athletics; and controversies over eligibility rules. He also reveals how the debates over brutality and ethics created the need for a central organizing body, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, which still runs college sports today. Sprinkled throughout with spicy sports anecdotes, from the Thanksgiving Day Princeton-Yale football game that drew record crowds in the 1890s to a meeting with President Theodore Roosevelt on football violence, this lively, in-depth investigation will appeal to serious sports buffs as well as to anyone interested in American social and cultural history.
